LOUISVILLE, Ky. — We all know where we were, what we were doing, when we heard the news one year ago. There was a mass shooting happening in downtown Louisville.
A good friend of mine was actually driving past Old National Bank as police were still outside and shots were being fired through the windows.
This was happening in Louisville? The horrifying truth is yes. Like so many other cities, yes it was.
Over the past year we've heard the strong voices of the victim's families.
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They are individually doing their best to make changes, but the past 12 months have not been easy.
Despite their ultimate loss, they have been met with only more frustration.
Now, one year later, no meaningful gun law changes have passed in Kentucky.
The Crisis Aversion and Rights Retention (CARR) bill would have made it easier to temporarily take away firearms from a person with mental health issues, but it never got a committee vote in Frankfort.
It had some bipartisan support and was backed by mass shooting survivor Whitney Strong and Maryanne Elliott, the wife of Old National Bank's Tommy Elliott.
For the families, you need to know you are loved and appreciated by a city that will not forget April 10, 2023.
But without major change, we have to face reality.
Louisville is now just like all the other communities that quickly rushed for reform in the face of extreme violence, but then failed to do one thing about it.
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